Meanings of pruning hook in английском

Pomōna has a pruning hook in her right hand, and a branch in her left.

These are the devil's tools in monarchies; the Republic's weapons are the ploughshare and the pruning hook.

I must plead guilty to the charge, not having leisure to apply the pruning hook of correction.

Drop that merciless tool, your pruning hook.

If you are doing any of these things, get out the pruning hook of good resolution and the sharp ax of determination.

He is painted with a garland of flowers on his head, a pruning hook in one hand, and ripe fruits in the other.

At the pruning hook, in getting in that harvest, they were of vast assistance, and not often have soldiers been more nobly occupied.'

Great, thick necks hulked forward in impatient jerks; and those dagger-pointed horns, sharper than a pruning hook, promised no boy's sport for our company.

Yet the pruning hook, which Sir George associated with the historic harvest, and with Ridley, an early Australian colonist, was hardly of the Scriptural pattern.

Isaiah: they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

Let our swords be beaten to ploughshares, and our spears turned into pruning hooks.

In the human kingdom warfare was to cease entirely; spears would be turned into pruning hooks and swords into plowshares.

It is well that you have disbanded your armies, and that your instruments of war have been made into plows and pruning hooks.

And he shall judge among the nations, and rebuke many people, and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.

"'Twill be no better next market week," replied the merchant named Michael, a dealer in knives, pruning hooks, and other bladed utensils.